Pat
Dowler
Matthias
Hölzer
17/01/1998
1.00.00
KDE
KControl
settings
input
keyboard
mouse

# KDE Control Center - Input Settings

## Configuring the Keyboard

Keyboard settings are features of the X server. While the X server attempts to make good use of the available hardware, this is not always possible. For example, on some systems the key click is enabled or disabled in the CMOS setup and the X server cannot supply an alternative. Thus, if a setting does not seem to do anything, it is is because it is unsupported by the X server and/or the hardware.

Users can adjust the following settings for the keyboard:

- enable/disable autorepeat (If enabled, this feature causes holding down a key to become equivalent to typing it over and over again in rapid succession).

- key click volume, which gives audible feedback to the typist when a key is struck.

## Configuring the Mouse

In this screen, users can adjust the Accelerated mode settings for the mouse, and adjust the mappings of the mouse buttons for right-handed or left-handed use.

- In the accelerated mode, the distance on the screen moved by the pointer for a given movement of the pointing device (e.g., the mouse) is increased by a factor called the Acceleration, which is set by the first slider control.

- The mouse will go into accelerated mode if the pointer is made to make a rapid movement on the screen larger than the Threshold distance set with the second slider control.

This acceleration feature allows for slow, precise pointer motion over small distances and rapid motion across the screen with a short but quick motion of the mouse.

Large acceleration values and small threshold values may make the pointer motion too jerky to be useful, as it will always move very quickly.

- The button mapping selection allows the functions of the right and left mouse buttons to be swapped, for the convenience of left-handed users.